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baby chicks :)https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/baby-chicks/
https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/baby-chicks/#respondSun, 22 Jan 2012 02:40:46 +0000http://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/?p=84Continue reading →]]>My husband has been going chicken crazy for a while now. literally a broody man. He bought an incubator and some fertile eggs and has been researching chicken breeding genetics and anything else chicken related. For Christmas he received only one non-chicken related gift, a worm farm from me and even then his first thought was they would make great protein for the chooks. The up side of this means we have a gorgeous batch of teeney tiny chookies around us.
]]>https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/baby-chicks/feed/0dippywalloplil chickyNo more crafty madness (for now)https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/no-more-crafty-madness-for-now/
https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/no-more-crafty-madness-for-now/#respondWed, 14 Dec 2011 23:55:29 +0000http://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/?p=79Continue reading →]]>So now that the last craft market is a week behind me I have been given a lot more time to just be with myself and think. It was a reality hit. I have been both very sad and very happy in the past week.

I had a scan to check on my bizarre ovary mass which they are now calling a cyst and wanted to take out. After waiting for 45 min in the waiting room we got called into a room with an African male doctor we had never met, who told me that it was a cyst that hadn’t reduced in size since last time, my tumour markers were back to normal and that they probably want to just keep an eye on me and do another scan in three months. He then went to double check his plan with some consultants and came back saying actually they want to take it out. I asked if I had a choice of no surgery, he said yes it’s your body you can do what you like with it, we’ll check it in 4-6 weeks, back he went to check with the consultants and they said if I was going to refuse surgery they would do another scan in a few months. It was a bit disconserting to say the least. It also made me miss the lovely doctors I had when I was last in the hospital. Afterwards talking to Harry about the exchange he put it down to a cultural difference and I agreed but I think it was down to a cultural difference between nurses and doctors not Australians and Africans.

In any case I’m glad my tumour markers are back to normal. I have also been doing some pretty heavy grieving for our lost baby. I hurts a lot. It was a death of potential. The worst thing is thinking about everything that the baby could have been or imagining what its tiny ears or nose would have looked like. Imagining the joy of watching Harry fall instantly in love with our baby the moment he sets eyes on it. That’s the worst bit. It makes me broody and want to be pregnant again but it’s mainly the loss of that baby rather than a desire to have a baby right now. If I did get pregnant right now we couldn’t build our dream of becoming full time farmers because I would be to vomity to help. We couldn’t go to India to see Harry’s family next year, at least not very easily.

So I miss our baby but I’m going to have to wait a little bit longer to experience those longed for moments.

It was really fun, not the most profitable but fun. Some friends came down and hung out with us and I got to catch up with some old friends who I have’t seen in years. I got to meet a friends baby for the first time and I got my etsy shop name out there a bit more so all in all not too bad an experience.

So yesterday I spent a lovely day down at my neighbours house working together for the Waldorf Twilight Markets tomorrow night. Here are some pictures. I can’t stay for long as I need to get back to it.

Shanti at the sewing machine looking hot.

My empty fleecie pile. As of right now they still all need faces and fluff.

Shanti's Beautiful Necklaces

]]>https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/sewing-day-with-shanti/feed/0dippywallopShanti at the sewing machineMy empty fleecie pile.Shanti's Beautiful NecklacesFinished my pencil wrap tutorial. :)https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/finished-my-pencil-wrap-tutorial/
https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/finished-my-pencil-wrap-tutorial/#respondMon, 05 Dec 2011 07:13:41 +0000http://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/?p=55Continue reading →]]>So just a quick note mainly so I can take a break from the insane amount of sewing I have been doing to tell you that I finished my Waldorf Pencil Wrap Tutorial and I’m pretty happy with it. Today I also finished my friends formal dress which is actually more piratey than formal but pretty sweet anyway. Pics to follow if I can convince her to pose in her full outfit.

It turned out to be an awesome experience. It was my first craft fair in fact the first time I have sold my craft anywhere. Shanti and I have been getting crafty in preparation for the Mount Barker Waldorf Christmas Twilight Fair, so when I heard of this fair last minute I thought I would try and bring along my wares. It felt really good making things for people to love.

Things I learnt from today:

you will never make a decent hourly wage whilst crafting it has to be for the love if it.

]]>https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/craftastic/feed/0dippywallopmy rug stalllong time no seehttps://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/long-time-no-see/
https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/long-time-no-see/#respondFri, 02 Dec 2011 02:19:24 +0000http://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/?p=38Continue reading →]]>So its been a long time between posts. A lot has happened. I got very sick after I ate that chook and that slowly merged into what turned out to be morning sickness. We got engaged and married and a week after returning from our honeymoon I lost the baby I was 12 weeks at the time but the scan showed the baby had only made it to 8 weeks but the placenta had kept trying and had kept the pregnancy going for another 4 weeks. That has been horrible and from that turns out something is wrong with my ovary which still hasn’t been resolved, I’ll keep you updated. I love being married. I hated losing our baby.

We have been busy creating we now have a pretty comprehensive vegetable garden, I am about to do two different craft markets for Christmas. Oh and I have agreed to sew a friends formal dress we now have less that a week and haven’t done any of it.

Busy life!

]]>https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/long-time-no-see/feed/0dippywalloproast chickenhttps://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/roast-chicken/
https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/roast-chicken/#respondThu, 18 Aug 2011 23:13:15 +0000http://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/?p=32Continue reading →]]>So last night our friend nick came round with his fishing rod and rifle and a plan to eat one of our chooks. So basically he came round with a desire to kill things. We did eat the chook but the hunting and fishing weren’t fruitful.

Before I go any further I have to explain that I have been vegetarian since I was 8 with the proviso the if I or my family killed it I would be fine eating it. Turns out my family don’t kill that many things. Last night I ate the first chicken I can remember tasting. it was good but he had these long legs that were quite tough but the small amount of breast he had was delicious. Long legs and meagre breast it felt almost as if we were eating a supermodel.

Feel like a proper homesteader now!

]]>https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/roast-chicken/feed/0dippywallopA new dayhttps://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/a-new-day/
https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/a-new-day/#respondThu, 04 Aug 2011 23:50:11 +0000http://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/?p=13Continue reading →]]>It is currently 7:14 am im sitting in bed with back to a roaring fire and a cup of delicious coffee in my hand thanks to my gorgeous man. I was thinking what I wanted to write about how often and what format to make the posts in. no decisions made yet

Today I thought I would introduce our little family. So to begin with there is Harry. He grew up in a village in rural Punjab in India but came to Australia to study social work (which he hated and finished earlier this year) two years ago. I met him when he was doing his placement in my Mum’s office and then next thing we know we are living in the country together with chooks and a puppy.

The small drunk one

Our puppy Lexi is a maremma livestock guardian dog, bought for the idea of her being a guardian to our chooks. She was quiet at first but now she is becoming exceedingly more like a drunken polar bear every day. She is adorable and intelligent and incredibly cheeky.

The motely crew

The other part of our family is a bunch of chooks. A motley crew of mainly juvenile roosters who were the result of someone’s experimentation with breeding who we got for $60 from gumtree.

I will include separate posts about the story so far with both chooks and our fluffy little puppy as both the stories are worth sharing, but for now that’s everyone introduced and i need to get up out of my warm bed and give everyone their breakfast.

]]>https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/a-new-day/feed/0dippywallopSG1S3742SG1S3666The Beginninghttps://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/the-begging/
https://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/the-begging/#respondThu, 04 Aug 2011 00:56:23 +0000http://ikasihouse.wordpress.com/?p=7Continue reading →]]>Well actually the beginning started a long time ago… but this is the begging of me writing about it.

I grew up in a community which believed the economic world was going to come crashing down in 1989. Turns out they were wrong about the date but maybe not about the eventual outcome. who knows.

We lived in a community on a property in the Adelaide Hills. the aim was for self-sufficiency, for non-reliance on services provided by the wider economic world. With hindsight this was not really either necessary or possible but still… a noble goal.

Now after a few brief adventures in the wide world I’m back and with my partner we are striving to breathe life into the old dream of living with the land.

I understand that we aren’t instantly going to be able to grow every vegetable that passes our lips or produce every dairy product either. I understand things won’t always go as planned but I think its going to be fun finding out.